java -version output for JDK8

[Steven R. Loomis]

On 7/25/13 4:26 p.m., Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> On 07/25/2013 07:05 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Changing any of these lines is very painful, because too many
>> scripts and tests have made assumptions on these lines, and some of
>> these are System properties which are baked at build time.
> I am looking at it from the users' point of view. Oracle (proprietary)
> JDKs claim to be "java version..." as do IBM (proprietary) JDKs. Isn't
> openjdk the odd one out if it claims to be "openjdk version..."?
>
> I also think it will be much more painful for all our users to have to
> fix their scripts and tests if any of those scripts or tests happen to
> rely on the output of "java -version". Fixing our tests and scripts
> would surely be less painful.
>
> Thanks,
> Omair
I note that "java -XshowSettings" prints out all sorts of info in a
structured format.  Scripts might want to use this if possible.

Steven